Exploring recent developments and debates in education management

This article explores some recent developments and debates concerning education management. It is based on a review of seven recently published books with relevance to developing understanding of education management. An overview of the key issues and central arguments of each book is provided. Debates which have emerged within and between the books are identified as themes for discussion. Themes explored relate to: the changing context of education management; the management of change; discourses in education management; developing education management; a shift from management to leadership; power and values in education management; and the linkage between education and management. The article concludes that education management should emphasize educational goals rather than managerial ends. It suggests the need to explore the inter-relationship between management theory, discourse, practice and development and the implications for learning and teaching. There is a continuing need for development and debate concerning education management.     

试论高校内部和谐权力话语关系的构建——基于对J省高校的调查研究

文章通过对J省高校内部权力运行情况调查,比照当下教育语境阐释高校内部三种权力话语:一是以行政管理人员为主的行政权力话语;二是以教学科研人员为主的学术权力话语;三是以学生为主的学生权力话语。三种权力话语的阐释,意在以权力话语理论为指导,突破以往的认知限制,促进三种权力话语的有效对话,以三权相互独立又相互制衡的大学治理理念,构建大学组织的和谐权力配置模式。     

中小学官秩制度:变迁、检视与反思

建国初至今,我国中小学官秩制度经历了建立、废止、重新建立并最终稳定下来。在应试教育的理念与背景下,现行中小学官秩制度立足于经济学视域下的“效率法则”、理性主导下的行为主义操作程式以及先验性的人性论预设。哲学认识论与理性主义稳固地支撑着学校管理制度的界定法则与话语管理机制,使学校教育走上“科学化”“程式化”道路的同时,也给学生发展带来了一定的影响。     

教育政策研究中的性别意识探析

教育政策贯穿整个教育管理活动,每一种教育管理行为的发生都来源于一定的教育政策。近年来,在教育政策研究的基本环节中,＂人＂的主体不断增强。对＂人＂的关怀往往是基于对抽象化的人的分析,在话语中缺少了一个重要的人类学现实——人的性别存在。女性主义教育思潮与社会性别理论的兴起,丰富了教育政策的理论基础和研究视角,在教育政策研究中纳入性别意识,能够使教育政策研究更加贴切于＂人＂的存在,更富有＂人性＂。     

新时代高校辅导员思想政治教育话语能力提升路径研究

高校辅导员是高校思想政治教育的骨干力量,辅导员的思想政治教育话语能力是决定高校辅导员开展思想政治教育工作成效的重要因素,在新时代背景下研究如何提升高校辅导员思想政治教育话语的能力,对进一步增强辅导员对大学生开展日常管理和思想教育的手段和媒介运用的效果、推动辅导员专业化队伍的建设,都具有现实的研究意义.     

Additional workload or a part of the job? Icelandic teachers' discourse on inclusive education

The aim of this article is to examine the discourse of Icelandic compulsory school teachers on inclusive education. From 1974 and onwards, the education policy in Iceland has been towards inclusion, and Iceland is considered to be an example of a highly inclusive education system with few segregated resources for students with special educational needs. In particular, the article focuses on what characterises and legitimises teachers' discourse on inclusive education, the contradictions in the discourse and how teachers have involved themselves in the process. We use the approach of historical discourse analysis to analyse the discourse as it appears in interviews with teachers and media articles on education as well as in key documents issued by the Parliament. The article provides an insight into the complexities of this topic and draws attention to underlying issues relevant to inclusive education.     

比较教育学的话语体系偏向及其理论根基分析

在比较教育学的发展历程中,作为其独立学科体系表征的话语体系出现了现实的偏向,这成为阻碍比较教育学科发展的瓶颈。只有直面其现实偏向,对其话语样式进行深入的分析,并进一步挖掘其背后的理论根基,不断地自我反观,以构建学科自身的话语体系平台,比较教育学才能走向进一步的活跃与繁荣。     

自媒体视域下大学生思想政治教育的话语权分析

随着自媒体的诞生与发展,传统思想政治教育的话语权逐渐受到挑战,教育主体的话语权威逐渐被消解,传统、单一的教学方式逐渐被多元化、新潮的自媒体兼容,教育者的传统话语表达方式无法适应自媒体环境,这一系列原因都造成了当前大学生思想政治教育话语权的困境。在自媒体环境中,如何提升思想政治教育的话语权成为亟待解决的问题。     

以学分银行优化社区教育管理研究

社区教育由提供教育机会转向助力于终身教育体系构建和学习型社会建设,成为社会治理的关键支撑。学分银行作为学习成果的认证、积累与转换的制度体系,将其应用到社区教育管理中,能够激活社区教育参与积极性,唤醒社区教育主体话语的回归、优化社区教育内部结构和监理社区教育资源共享机制。因此,应实现学分银行支持社区教育管理的效用,积极发挥学分银行的价值聚合、管理创新、环境支持、成果管理、成效评价等方面的作用,以优化社区教育管理。     

网络媒介环境下高职院校思想政治教育话语权提升策略研究

随着网络媒介的快速发展与信息传播方式的变革,高职院校思想政治教育的生态环境发生了重要改变。网络媒介传播即时性、传播价值多元化以及信息传播泛娱乐化大大削弱了思想政治教育的话语权,给高职院校思想政治教育工作带来了巨大挑战。而网络媒介时代思想政治教育话语权彰显着高职院校思想政治教育对于学生的综合影响力,为了提升思想政治教育话语权,高职院校必须积极推进话语方式转变、推动传统媒介与网络媒介融合发展、提高思想政治教育工作者的话语驾驭能力等,以增强思想政治教育的实效性。     

提升网络思想政治教育话语有效性探究

随着信息技术的飞速发展,人们已经进入网络信息时代。思想政治教育话语是连接教育者与受教育者之间的桥梁与纽带,在很大程度上影响着思想政治教育工作的顺利开展,有助于增强思想政治教育的感召力与影响力。针对网络语境对思想政治教育话语的双重影响,探索提高网络思想政治教育话语有效性的途径,具有深刻的时代意义与现实意义。     

社会管理创新背景下的高校思想政治教育

社会管理创新是当前中国社会发展的必然要求。高校思想政治教育应当以社会管理创新为新平台,自觉推进自身创新发展;以社会管理创新为研究新课题,在参与社会实践中创新工作机制;以社会管理为载体提升社会素质,促进和谐社会建设。     

A Conceptual Model for Teacher Education

Recent critiques of the discourse or beliefs and practices of physical education have focused on the restrictive ideological assumptions of the subject. However, these critiques in turn have been criticized for rehearsing once more the gap between theory and practice. Drawing on theoretical models external to physical education, a form of discourse analysis is proposed to link critical perspectives and practical concerns in an account of effective teaching and learning in physical education.     

The use and misuse of pleasure in sex education curricula

Since Michelle Fine's writing on the missing discourse of desire in sex education, there has been considerable prompting among sexuality educators and feminist scholars to incorporate talk of pleasure into sex education curricula. While the calls for inclusion continue, few have actually examined the curricula for a pleasure discourse or explored how it is contextualised within sex education curricula. In this paper, we analysed curricula used in the USA in the past decade. A qualitative thematic analysis revealed that the discourse around pleasurable sex was often linked to a range of dangerous or negative outcomes including not using condoms, rushing into sex without thinking, regretted sex, and pregnancy or STDs. When the discourse around pleasure was included in sections on ‘knowing one's body’, this discourse took a medicalised, scientific tone. Pleasurable sex was also presented in more positive ways, either linked to marriage in Abstinence Only Until Marriage curricula, or within a more feminist discourse about female pleasure in comprehensive sex education curricula. Our research indicates that a discourse of desire is not missing, but that this discourse was often situated as part of a discourse on safe practice and there, continues to equate pleasure with danger.     

Shifting themes in OECD country reviews of higher education

There have been changes in the political economy since the 1980s, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has changed as well. Scholars have noted shifts in OECD discourse in some policy fields since that time: shifts away from what might be called classic neoliberal perspectives. This paper reflects on the changes in the political economy and in OECD and explores how they might be related to changes in OECD discourse in higher education. Specifically, it examines country reviews of higher education systems conducted by OECD in the mid-1990s and the late-2000s for evidence of shifts in its higher education discourse. Instead of a softening of neoliberal perspectives, it finds a further entrenchment of assumptions associated with neoliberalization. It also describes what appears to be a deepening contradiction in the discourse concerning the private and public benefits of higher education. Finally, it reflects on how the contexts of the political economy as framed by OECDs discourse, affects its proposed goals and strategies for higher education.     

Learning Outcomes in Scandinavian Education through the Lens of Elliot Eisner

ABSTRACT

Discursively learning outcomes have been embedded within an education-policy context characterised by a shift from teaching to learning. In the dominant education policy discourse, learning outcomes have come to play an important role in education whose emphasis is more on product than process, which by its critics have been characterised as scientific management. Calls have been made to reconsider alternative interpretations of learning outcomes and a renewal of older perspectives on learning outcomes such as in Eisner’s works. The article examines the concept of learning outcomes, as interpreted in education policy, and discusses it within Eisner’s framing of teaching and learning. Analysing policy developments and the introduction of learning outcomes in two Scandinavian countries, we ask what is taken for granted in the interpretation of learning outcomes. The analysis contributes to a widened narrative on what education could be about by illuminating alternative ways of interpreting and conceptualising learning outcomes in education.     

高等教育质量:概念内涵与质量标准

高等教育已经进入质量时代,质量话语的泛滥造成了大众化高等教育质量管理和质量评估的盲目和混乱。高等教育质量的提出源于经济社会的压力,它具有复杂性和矛盾性,不同主体有不同的理解和诉求。高等教育质量标准至少包含外适标准和内适标准两个层面,其制定涉及到权力主体和合法性机制,应遵循多样统一、发展性和人本性等重要原则。     

基于语料库的高职英语课堂情景话语研究

从高职英语课堂话语中的情景建构入手,对师生的话语交流实况进行调查研究。基于高职教育的培养目标要求,教师在高职英语课堂教学中结合高职学生的社会需求等特点,按“实用为度,管用为主”的指导思想在日常教学中不断地创设接近真实的职业情景,引导学生进行英语技能的训练。运用统计方法,对以国家精品课程教学视频材料为基础建立的高职英语课堂会话语料库进行分析,主要关注情景创设话语中呈现的名词与动词的使用情况,发现高职英语课堂情景话语与普通高校英语课堂的话语呈现出不同的特征,采用“实用为主,管用为度”的教学原则,在一定程度上体现了ESP教学思想和高职教育所倡导的实用性与应用性相结合,对高职英语课堂教学改革有一定的启示意义。     

Education in the Sudan: the privileging of an Islamic discourse

This article examines the educational discourse in the part of the Sudan administered by the Government of the Sudan. It first analyses the value system upon which the Sudanese education is based by focusing on the nature of Islamism. Such a discussion is necessary because the dominant discourse is a discourse where power and Islamic theocracy legitimise each other and spill over into the educational discourse. Given the ethnic and religious complexity in the Sudan the imposition of a fundamentalist Islamic discourse is fiercely contested. The second part of the article, therefore, discusses the educational discourse of the government and relates it to the oppositional discourses in the country. It pays particular attention to the homogenising efforts of the dominant discourse to eradicate difference as a constituting factor in the Sudanese education system. The attempts to recognise difference have not led to a fundamental negotiation of the consequences of Islamism in the official school system.     

Just the Facts? The Separation of Sex Education from Moral Education

In this essay Sharon Lamb considers how progressives have begun to win the longstanding battle to shape sex education and what they have had to give up in the process. After framing the battle in historical context, Lamb uses discourse analysis to explore the hidden values in the “evidence‐based” (EB) curricula that progressives currently favor and that pass for neutral today. As her analysis reveals, EB curricula privilege three discourses — a discourse of science, a discourse of healthy choices (with an emphasis on individuals), and a discourse of efficacy — all of which are grounded in ideology and serve to legitimize certain kinds of knowledge while undermining other kinds. Lamb concludes by proposing eight tenets for the future of sexuality education, which are intended to displace the eight tenets codified by proponents of abstinence‐only‐until‐marriage sexuality education.